Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any budding Napoleon with a few hours to spare — or a few days , for some games — can choose from titles such as ‘ Butcher of Baghdad ’ , ‘ Gulf Strike ’ and ‘ Line in the Sand ’ . |
| 2 | Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock . |
| 3 | ‘ Except a few days ago , he sent me a ticket to New York . |
| 4 | But I fancied feeling the long hard pressure of ocean waves against our hull and , though we were short-handed , I reckoned that a few days out of sight of land would shake us all down quickly . |
| 5 | Now it happened that a few days earlier Jones had called up Lee R. Phillips , an attorney associated with Brigham Young University , in order to file a patent arising from his muon-fusion work . |
| 6 | His son Carl later recalled that a few days before his father 's death there was already a terrible stench of decomposition , the advanced state of which apparently made an autopsy impossible . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's just that a few days ago I heard one of our members say something about Connie . |
| 8 | ( The first Yugoslav report of unrest in Shkodër had appeared on Dec. 19 , when a Serbian newspaper claimed that a few days earlier there had been an anti-government demonstration involving " a large number of people " . |
| 9 | It is understood that a few days before his death the young airman shot down a Dornier bomber . |
| 10 | Other news now , and it 's more than a thousand days since Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza strip began the Intifada or uprising which has cost hundreds of Arab lives . |
| 11 | If your symptoms persist for more than a few days , then contact your doctor for advice . |
| 12 | Call your doctor for advice if symptoms persist for more than a few days . |
| 13 | You could never expect things to last , after all , could not plan more than a few days ahead . |
| 14 | An argument by many atmospheric physicists , for example , is that shortcomings in the accuracy of weather prediction over periods of more than a few days largely results from the unsophisticated nature of existing models , the lack of suitable data and inadequate computer power ( see Fig. 9.3 , derived from Tyler 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Although recorded annually there is no regular winter population , and birds rarely remain for more than a few days except in severe winters , when considerable influxes occur . |
| 16 | Mary was holding a tiny fawn , and it could n't have been more than a few days old . |
| 17 | 6 survived the crash but no one lived more than a few days . |
| 18 | If your symptoms persist for more than a few days , then contact your doctor for advice . |
| 19 | Call you doctor for advice if symptoms persist for more than a few days . |
| 20 | At this time of year there was n't enough milk anywhere in the village to borrow for more than a few days . |
| 21 | No amount of persuasion would induce her to stay with us for more than a few days before she 'd vanish again to pursue her old habits , and on New Year 's Day 1967 , the police called for the last time . |
| 22 | This time the defeat of his hopes did n't crush him for more than a few days . |
| 23 | Spiders can live for several days without food , but if you keep a spider for longer than a few days , you must feed it . |
| 24 | It takes more than a few days but it goes again , just about . |
| 25 | Erm but that you know that that did n't carry on much more than a few days after the the initial disturbances . |
| 26 | The smaller the unit , the shorter should be the stay inside it — there are very few patients who need to be contained within a locked unit of this kind for more than a few days . |
| 27 | ‘ When we sent you away , Fergus , you were a babe , no more than a few days old . ’ |
| 28 | A little while ago , not much more than a few days ago , I was a child who went about in a world of colours , of hard and tangible forms . |
| 29 | He had seen her only once , and that briefly , no more than a few days , when she had come to Richard 's court on a state visit with her ancient husband ; but he had never forgotten her , and after the duke 's death , which by some dispensation of providence had taken place shortly after Henry 's coronation , he had taken advantage of every courier to France to send her devout greetings . |
| 30 | The alliance should prepare for a conventional war lasting no more than a few days . |